Curves ladies go on Food Drive for Kerith Church project

Curves manager Bev Gellard, back, with gym members Sue Phillips, Sue Janes and Gwenda Williams and the mountain of food collected during the Food Drive

Women at one Wokingham gym have been piling on the pounds in an effort to help a neighbouring food project in Bracknell.

Food weighing more than 500lbs has been donated by those who work out at Curves in Denton Road.

In the past few weeks’ fitness fanatics have been handing over boxes of cereal, packets of pasta and other essentials to the franchise’s annual Food Drive, which is this year supporting the Foodbank run by the Kerith Community Church in Bracknell.

And in return for non-perishable items or monetary donations, staff at the gym have been rewarding its members with free entry into a raffle.

Non-members who made donations between Friday, April 1, and Saturday, April 16, however, received free membership, meaning the £149 joining fee was waived.

Bev Gellard, Curves manager, said: “At the core of our business is the message that women are stronger when they rally together, and that is the point we hope to bring home with our food drive.

“We want to show our community just how powerful the generosity of our members can be.”